However one of the commentators (not sure which one) correctly identified Cumulonimbus clouds and knew the abbreviation was Cb.

Mark Richardson. But I think it was his mate Andrew Mulligan who summed it all up for me when he said that normally when "our team" is getting this badly spanked you get a bit cranky. But with India, you find yourself sitting back and thinking 'bugger me, that was beautiful'.

As a mainlander, I care about as much about the Rugby World Cup as the NZRFU apparently intended me to. Fair enough.

But with India, you find yourself sitting back and thinking 'bugger me, that was beautiful'.

Because it is. Sometimes the Aussies play that way too - Warne, Gilchrist - but on the whole they tend to be more ruthlessly efficient then artistic. Plus you hear their captain speak... even when the content of what is saying boils down to "we admnistered to these guys a right old spanking", it comes off with such class. You never hear that coming out of Ponting or Smith or whomever the captain of England happens to be on that given tour.

There was a great comment on Cricket With Balls about Sehwag - apparantly he says "missed 4' and 'missed 6' when his team mates defend or leave deliveries. He simply sees the game differently to everyone else. He's in that Gilchrist / Klusner group of being just waaay out there in style and attitude.

Vettori knew we were done for v early on on Wednesday night, OK the weather didn't help, but woah - that game will be a real low point for Dan and the team.

The real kick in the sensitive bits is the 9pm start time for the big games.

and really frustrating if you have a young kid who, in the view of his parents, is only just old enough to watch a 7:30pm game live. I think that the games in question are at the weekend, so in theory the kids can sleep in, but I also struggle to keep awake past 10:30pm!

I know that in the total scheme of things that children don't make up a huge percentage of the viewing audience, but you would hope that when the Cup is held in your country you would hope that they could watch the games live.

I also wonder about the resource consents at Eden Park - don't events have to finish soon after 10pm?

9. The number of night-time rugby, cricket or similar type sporting events (requiring the use of lights) shall be limited 16 in any calendar year, with games being scheduled to finish no later than 9.05pm (for rugby) and 10.00pm (for cricket).

11. There shall be no night-time games on Sundays

I'm not sure how up to date this is, but it looks like they'll be playing 2 minutes each way, with a 1 min half-time break for the 1st semi-final, and the 2nd semi-final and final will be postponed!

i quite like late kickoffs myself. fewer clashes with what my wife watches on tv, and my daughter probably in bed by then.

on the other hand, I've never really liked night rugby as a spectacle, and it probably isn't that great for taking the game to young folk who do like it (unlike my little girl) so....perhaps they could consider a few 9am kickoffs (or even earlier)? presumably would work out ok for the european and the americas tv market (bit rough for the aussies and Asia but you can't win 'em all), you get to play in daylight, hopefully less problems with post match drunkenness. If it's good enough for the under 10s to play at that time of day....